In late November 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog received a phone call from Paris delivering some terrible news.
Includes, for the first time, Werner Herzog\'s 1982 Tribute to Lotte Eisner upon her receipt of the Helmut K utner Prize.
Herzog documents everything he saw and felt on his quest to his friend\'s bedside, from poetic descriptions of the frozen landscape and harsh weather conditions to the necessity of finding shelter in vacant or abandoned houses and the intense loneliness of his solo excursion.
Of Walking in Ice is Herzog\'s beautifully written, much-admired, yet often-overlooked diary account of that journey.
He took a jacket, a compass, and a duffel bag of the barest essentials, and wearing a pair of new boots, set off on a three-week pilgrimage from Munich to Paris through the deep chill and snowstorms of winter.
Herzog was determined to prevent this and believed that an act of Walking would keep Eisner from death.
German film historian, mentor, and close friend Lotte Eisner was seriously ill and dying.
In late November 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog received a phone call from Paris delivering some terrible news
